Simple logic? If I have a "free" service that it costs me money to maintain, I must somehow make it profitable despite not getting money from end users or I go bankrupt. Which generally means ads (monetizing the end users for views and clicks) or selling telemetry to interested buyers. If I sell software for a profit up front, or a fee I don't necessarily need to sell anything to keep the lights on. Examples - Blizzard and World of Warcraft, Salesforce.com, many game companies, AV companies, etc. If it was discovered that Salesforce.com was selling anything on its users to 3rd parties there'd be a massive shitstorm that could put the company under. Companies are already cagey enough about having that sort of critical data in a 'trusted" 3rd party's hands to begin with.
No guarantee, but it lowers the chances from 100%. If you're getting something for free, YOU are the commodity. I cannot believe that people don't get this still.
> And this is just during the "changeover" period. In a couple of years, almost ALL the new USB sticks will be USB-C by default.
Also, I'd take exception to this. There are a LOT of devices with USB A ports on them that won't be getting C ports any time soon or maybe at all. Dual capable sticks will probably be the eventual norm is my guess because of consumer demand to interface with these older devices.
Well if I have a bunch of files to work on and move today it could be yes. Not to mention those USB-C with USB-A port thumb drives are about 3x the price of normal drives. But I guess money's no object to those buying these things anyway. The people buying them probably use $20 bills to light their artisanal firewood as well.
But how much of that is inertia? Lots of people kept landlines long after they primarily switched to using a cellphone because that's what you did, you had a phone at home. I'm sure lots of people are the same way with cable. You have a TV? You get cable. That's how everyone did it for ages and if you want local TV it's what you do and a lot of younger people are not that comfortable about the idea of messing with an antenna.
Hm interesting. Corporate hasn't bought Lenovos for a bit but when we do we image them from our own custom image and that OneKey thing would have set off alarms all over the Enterprise Security's section when it tried to update itself, if the Nazi-esque scanner we run on all active workstations and laptops didn't catch the BIOS changing the file first.
So I guess I'm saying *we* would have been OK but many companies wouldn't have...
> Is the touchscreen and Windows 10 really worth $800?
You did watch the video, right? It looks like one of the target markets is people who will actively interact with a digitizer pen, and considering a Wacom 27" LCD tablet (which is smaller and only 2560x1440 res) is $2800 all by itself:
I'd say getting a bigger workspace with a much higher pixel density and a decent computer thrown in is pretty attractive to that segment by comparison.
If it's a shitty low rise wood frame condo, noise is a problem, but then again that's the case in some woodframe condos I've seen that have notices in the elevator asking people not to close their cabinet doors too hard. That's not an AirBNB or regular occupant problem, that's a "developer was cutting corners on soundproofing/not bothering with soundproofing to maximize profit" problem. I live in a concrete tower and I hear *nothing*. It's lovely.
> You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb. What can you do?
Uh, you complain to the strata and the unit owner gets fined. You keep complaining and the owner keeps getting fined. At some point the number of fines will outweigh their profit and they stop AirBNBing the place. Works here in my tower.
Hateboi? What are you, 12? And you're definitely acting like a massive Mac Fanboy here. Replying to a 3 day dead article to say "but but Note 7!" when we're talking about PCs and laptops. But hey if you want to bring phones into it, I'll totally acknowledge Apple was the visionary leader in phones catching fire:
So it should be illegal because someone MIGHT use it to film someone without their consent? Great! Let's ban cameras and any phones with cameras next. Cuz ya know, those can be used to do the same thing and are way cheaper and quieter.
Another video card recall, this time in the 27" iMac:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203787
Hard drives too:
https://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive-3tb/
I do like how they say it's a "small number" of units and yet set up an entire program to handle that one component's replacement.
Those are the ones that immediately came to mind but there are also others I recall with their Kleenex box Mac Pro and more. It's interesting how it's usually the more expensive hardware that has the big problems with them. Nothing like sticking it to your biggest customers?
The problem is that not everyone is you. At a former job I supported PCs and then the director of marketing decided that he liked Macs so he unilaterally switched his group to Macs. Anecdotally I'd say the users had just as many problems that needed my help as they did when they were on PCs, and in addition had additional problems they needed sorting out in the first couple of weeks following the switchover due to their lack of familiarity with OSX. Most of their day to day problems were software related, so the underlying OS didn't factor into that one way or the other, and these peoples' self troubleshooting skills were practically nonexistent so it meant just as much work for me, and in some cases more as I was also then tasked to find them alternate software to do a given task.
For the average users, once you get past the enthusiasts skewing the numbers the IT savings will probably not be as significant as this article makes them out to be. People are still going to be having trouble mapping a drive, sharing a folder, logging into an SFTP site on Windows or OSX.
Hardware wise, the Macs generally use decent hardware that lasts, but also charge a premium for that. If offices used PCs that weren't the cheapest thing that fell off the turnip truck they'd see as good or better failure rates than the Macs. And Apple hasn't been 100% immune to shitty hardware slipping out the door so spending more on the Mac isn't a bulletproof guarantee either.
Forget connectivity. Belichick is going back to paper. How much "connectivity" does that have?
Reading through his rant he barely mentions any specific problem with the tablets other than alluding to a problem shooting video. I'd suspect this is yet another problem with overselling and under delivering on what the technology - in this case tablets - were supposed to do. If the tablets were used to display the same info as the paper he's going back to, plus having additional things like perhaps archives of all previous games' notes archived and indexed - which wouldn't need connectivity - and a handful of modest improvements initially I'm sure the coaching staff would have been pretty happy with them. Instead I'm willing to bet they were sold a half baked load of goods and outlandish capabilities with a bunch of barely usable "apps" that ran like shit and did everything "in the cloud" even when it was completely unneeded.
While the idea is tempting, the problem is the impossibility of even enforcement and the whole judge/jury/implementer problem.
As an example, say your best friend gets a little drunk and a cop comes up to him to try to get him to go home. He's not having any of it and spits at the cop. So the cop takes out his baton and clocks your friend across the head to "tune him up a little" and then takes him in. Your friend sits in the drunk tank with a pounding headache and is released in the morning with a bump on the head for being a doofus, lesson learned. Fair play right?
Now imagine that blow had the same force but was at just the wrong angle. Your friend suffers a small brain bleed from the impact but since he's drunk nobody listens to his complaint or notices the odd coordination problems. He sits in the drunk tank until the morning when he's found to be unresponsive. He's rushed to the hospital and after surgery has permanent brain damage. Did your friend deserve to be crippled for life by spitting on a cop? No?
That's why we don't hand out physical violence as summary punishments.
Same with "rewards" programs, Airmiles, etc. That stuff isn't free either. Merchants get hit for it, and end up passing that on to everyone in the form of inflated prices. Seriously, how could they not? If a merchant's margin on something is 10% and paying for it with a cashback card takes 1% on top of the 1-3% already charged for using the credit card, of course the merchant's going to do something about that vanishing margin.
Oh we don't even need to go that far. To use Chappelle as an example, he references the Michael Richards rant that basically screwed Richards' career in one of his stand up shows, and mentions semi-jokingly that's one of the reasons he's terrified of cameraphones.
And going back to that rant of Richards', if there wasn't a video of it, chances are nobody outside of that club would have even heard about it.
Holy shit, it's a real in the flesh idiot who has bought the US healthcare astroturf hook line and sinker. You don't live here, you don't use our system and yet you feel comfortable slinging bullshit like that around?
> You have arbitrary limits on expensive care that are a death sentence.
We don't no. But do look into US healthcare providers' lifetime limits and until the ACA those "preexisting conditions".
> You don't develop the interesting new treatments.
Horse. Shit. Insulin, Rhogam, the Salk polio vaccine trial, T - cells, AIDS medications, the ebola vaccine, etc.
You should really educate yourself. You're kind of an embarrassment.
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Simple logic? If I have a "free" service that it costs me money to maintain, I must somehow make it profitable despite not getting money from end users or I go bankrupt. Which generally means ads (monetizing the end users for views and clicks) or selling telemetry to interested buyers. If I sell software for a profit up front, or a fee I don't necessarily need to sell anything to keep the lights on. Examples - Blizzard and World of Warcraft, Salesforce.com, many game companies, AV companies, etc. If it was discovered that Salesforce.com was selling anything on its users to 3rd parties there'd be a massive shitstorm that could put the company under. Companies are already cagey enough about having that sort of critical data in a 'trusted" 3rd party's hands to begin with.
No guarantee, but it lowers the chances from 100%. If you're getting something for free, YOU are the commodity. I cannot believe that people don't get this still.
> And this is just during the "changeover" period. In a couple of years, almost ALL the new USB sticks will be USB-C by default.
Also, I'd take exception to this. There are a LOT of devices with USB A ports on them that won't be getting C ports any time soon or maybe at all. Dual capable sticks will probably be the eventual norm is my guess because of consumer demand to interface with these older devices.
I looked on Amazon Canada, since, I am in Canada. And the first hit was this:
https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Type-C-Smartphones-Tablets-SDDDC-032G-G46/dp/B00V62XBY8
$52 for a 32GB thumb drive.
compare and contrast with this USB 3.0 32GB flash drive :
https://www.amazon.ca/Kingston-Digital-DataTraveler-DTSE9G2-32GB/dp/B00SOL9ZLC/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1478194430&sr=1-2&keywords=32+gb+usb+flash+drive
So to my cursory search it was actually more like 3.5x the price of a USB 3.0 drive.
Even at one of our better brick and mortar places in Vancouver, NCIX - there's a premium. Same drive you linked is on sale for $29:
http://www.ncix.com/detail/kingston-32gb-dt-microduo-3c-6e-110555.htm
compared with straight up USB 3 at $13
http://www.ncix.com/detail/kingston-32gb-usb3-0-datatraveler-100-48-90677.htm
Well if I have a bunch of files to work on and move today it could be yes. Not to mention those USB-C with USB-A port thumb drives are about 3x the price of normal drives. But I guess money's no object to those buying these things anyway. The people buying them probably use $20 bills to light their artisanal firewood as well.
But how much of that is inertia? Lots of people kept landlines long after they primarily switched to using a cellphone because that's what you did, you had a phone at home. I'm sure lots of people are the same way with cable. You have a TV? You get cable. That's how everyone did it for ages and if you want local TV it's what you do and a lot of younger people are not that comfortable about the idea of messing with an antenna.
Hm interesting. Corporate hasn't bought Lenovos for a bit but when we do we image them from our own custom image and that OneKey thing would have set off alarms all over the Enterprise Security's section when it tried to update itself, if the Nazi-esque scanner we run on all active workstations and laptops didn't catch the BIOS changing the file first.
So I guess I'm saying *we* would have been OK but many companies wouldn't have...
> Is the touchscreen and Windows 10 really worth $800?
You did watch the video, right? It looks like one of the target markets is people who will actively interact with a digitizer pen, and considering a Wacom 27" LCD tablet (which is smaller and only 2560x1440 res) is $2800 all by itself:
https://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cintiq-27QHD-Creative-Display/dp/B00R7QJAHY
I'd say getting a bigger workspace with a much higher pixel density and a decent computer thrown in is pretty attractive to that segment by comparison.
> There isn't a good notebook vendor other than Apple
Did Lenovo drop off the face of the Earth? I haven't been disappointed with my Thinkpads.
And granted we've only had a few Asus notebooks around the office but they've all been solid.
If it's a shitty low rise wood frame condo, noise is a problem, but then again that's the case in some woodframe condos I've seen that have notices in the elevator asking people not to close their cabinet doors too hard. That's not an AirBNB or regular occupant problem, that's a "developer was cutting corners on soundproofing/not bothering with soundproofing to maximize profit" problem. I live in a concrete tower and I hear *nothing*. It's lovely.
> You live in a nice quiet condo tower, and then suddenly it's 24x7 party next door because the unit is being rented on Airbnb. What can you do?
Uh, you complain to the strata and the unit owner gets fined. You keep complaining and the owner keeps getting fined. At some point the number of fines will outweigh their profit and they stop AirBNBing the place. Works here in my tower.
This more competes with the 27" iMac that is $2300, and is nowhere near those specs. Overpriced sure, but not out in crazytown compared to the Mac.
Are you trying to say that Esc is about as useful? Because, you know, you're quite wrong. Open a file with vi and see.
Hateboi? What are you, 12? And you're definitely acting like a massive Mac Fanboy here. Replying to a 3 day dead article to say "but but Note 7!" when we're talking about PCs and laptops. But hey if you want to bring phones into it, I'll totally acknowledge Apple was the visionary leader in phones catching fire:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhone-6-Plus-catches-fire-in-mans-bed_id77021
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/iphone-explosion-fire-6-plus-student-pocket/
and their latest batch doesn't seem to be immune:
http://abc30.com/news/fresno-woman-says-her-iphone-exploded-and-caught-on-fire-in-her-bedroom/1543292/
http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/apple-iphone-7-explodes/
Should we now shift the goalposts to some other area? Perhaps cars? Ford totally pioneered the exploding car tech with their Pinto...
So it should be illegal because someone MIGHT use it to film someone without their consent? Great! Let's ban cameras and any phones with cameras next. Cuz ya know, those can be used to do the same thing and are way cheaper and quieter.
Problems with their Macbook Pros only acknowledged after a class action lawsuit:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/widespread-2011-macbook-pro-failures-petition-lawsuit-repair-programme-3497935/
Another video card recall, this time in the 27" iMac:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203787
Hard drives too:
https://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive-3tb/
I do like how they say it's a "small number" of units and yet set up an entire program to handle that one component's replacement.
Those are the ones that immediately came to mind but there are also others I recall with their Kleenex box Mac Pro and more. It's interesting how it's usually the more expensive hardware that has the big problems with them. Nothing like sticking it to your biggest customers?
The problem is that not everyone is you. At a former job I supported PCs and then the director of marketing decided that he liked Macs so he unilaterally switched his group to Macs. Anecdotally I'd say the users had just as many problems that needed my help as they did when they were on PCs, and in addition had additional problems they needed sorting out in the first couple of weeks following the switchover due to their lack of familiarity with OSX. Most of their day to day problems were software related, so the underlying OS didn't factor into that one way or the other, and these peoples' self troubleshooting skills were practically nonexistent so it meant just as much work for me, and in some cases more as I was also then tasked to find them alternate software to do a given task.
For the average users, once you get past the enthusiasts skewing the numbers the IT savings will probably not be as significant as this article makes them out to be. People are still going to be having trouble mapping a drive, sharing a folder, logging into an SFTP site on Windows or OSX.
Hardware wise, the Macs generally use decent hardware that lasts, but also charge a premium for that. If offices used PCs that weren't the cheapest thing that fell off the turnip truck they'd see as good or better failure rates than the Macs. And Apple hasn't been 100% immune to shitty hardware slipping out the door so spending more on the Mac isn't a bulletproof guarantee either.
Forget connectivity. Belichick is going back to paper. How much "connectivity" does that have?
Reading through his rant he barely mentions any specific problem with the tablets other than alluding to a problem shooting video. I'd suspect this is yet another problem with overselling and under delivering on what the technology - in this case tablets - were supposed to do. If the tablets were used to display the same info as the paper he's going back to, plus having additional things like perhaps archives of all previous games' notes archived and indexed - which wouldn't need connectivity - and a handful of modest improvements initially I'm sure the coaching staff would have been pretty happy with them. Instead I'm willing to bet they were sold a half baked load of goods and outlandish capabilities with a bunch of barely usable "apps" that ran like shit and did everything "in the cloud" even when it was completely unneeded.
While the idea is tempting, the problem is the impossibility of even enforcement and the whole judge/jury/implementer problem.
As an example, say your best friend gets a little drunk and a cop comes up to him to try to get him to go home. He's not having any of it and spits at the cop. So the cop takes out his baton and clocks your friend across the head to "tune him up a little" and then takes him in. Your friend sits in the drunk tank with a pounding headache and is released in the morning with a bump on the head for being a doofus, lesson learned. Fair play right?
Now imagine that blow had the same force but was at just the wrong angle. Your friend suffers a small brain bleed from the impact but since he's drunk nobody listens to his complaint or notices the odd coordination problems. He sits in the drunk tank until the morning when he's found to be unresponsive. He's rushed to the hospital and after surgery has permanent brain damage. Did your friend deserve to be crippled for life by spitting on a cop? No?
That's why we don't hand out physical violence as summary punishments.
If courts worked like that now we wouldn't need police cameras. Do you seriously think there's going to be a sea change in their attitudes? Doubtful.
Same with "rewards" programs, Airmiles, etc. That stuff isn't free either. Merchants get hit for it, and end up passing that on to everyone in the form of inflated prices. Seriously, how could they not? If a merchant's margin on something is 10% and paying for it with a cashback card takes 1% on top of the 1-3% already charged for using the credit card, of course the merchant's going to do something about that vanishing margin.
"It was a fluid, dangerous situation and I didn't have time to be fumbling with a camera when my life was potentially at risk!"
"At the time it didn't seem worth recording"
Either of those will work quite well in court to the types that worship the ground cops walk on.
Oh we don't even need to go that far. To use Chappelle as an example, he references the Michael Richards rant that basically screwed Richards' career in one of his stand up shows, and mentions semi-jokingly that's one of the reasons he's terrified of cameraphones.
And going back to that rant of Richards', if there wasn't a video of it, chances are nobody outside of that club would have even heard about it.
"The device, which records video only when the officer decides"
That says it all. If it doesn't record all the time, there's no point to deploying them at all.
> You have inferior care that gets people killed.
Holy shit, it's a real in the flesh idiot who has bought the US healthcare astroturf hook line and sinker. You don't live here, you don't use our system and yet you feel comfortable slinging bullshit like that around?
> You have arbitrary limits on expensive care that are a death sentence.
We don't no. But do look into US healthcare providers' lifetime limits and until the ACA those "preexisting conditions".
> You don't develop the interesting new treatments.
Horse. Shit. Insulin, Rhogam, the Salk polio vaccine trial, T - cells, AIDS medications, the ebola vaccine, etc.
You should really educate yourself. You're kind of an embarrassment.